Amadis JAMYN. Les Œuvres poétiques. Reveües,... Lot 90

Amadis JAMYN. Les Œuvres poétiques. Reveües, corrigees & augmentees en ceste derniere impression. - Le Second volume des œuvres... Ibid.., Félix Le Mangnier, 1584. 2 volumes in-12, duck-blue chagrin, double cold-stamped fillet, 4-nerved spine decorated in the same style with gilt fleurons, interior roulette, gilt edges ( 19th-century binding). Brunet, III-497 // Cioranescu, 11774, 11775 // De Backer, 406/407 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, III-740,741. I. (4 f.)-309-(11 f.) / *4, A-Z12, a-c12, d8 / 73 x 132 mm. // II. (6 f.) the last blank missing here-176 (miscalculated 182)-(4 f.) / ā6, A-P12 / 70 x 126 mm. Third edition, partly original, for the Œuvres poétiques, and original for Le Second volume des œuvres. Although published five years apart, all bibliographies consulted indicate that these two editions must be combined to make a complete copy of Amadis Jamyn's works. The second volume has not been reprinted, and is therefore rarer to come across. Copies of the first volume can be found addressed to Mamert Patisson or Le Mangnier. It is therefore likely that they shared the edition. The second volume offers a special feature. Folio 129 is a general title to the Discours de la philosophie à passicharis et à Rodanthe, which corresponds to De Backer's description. It is followed by a leaf containing the privilege on the recto and a sonnet introducing the Discours philosophiques on the reverse. This leaf has no signature and has been added to notebook L. The volumes differ slightly in size, which the binder has skilfully homogenized in the binding. Ink stains to 4 leaves in the first volume, a few passages underlined at an early date, title of the second volume repaired and minor marginal restorations to a few leaves. Provenance: Prosper Blanchemain (ex-libris, Maggs catalog Bibliothèque d'un humaniste, 1937, no. 251).